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Yes? The A380 is the perfect card for something like a HTPC now that the drivers are better and you can get them for $120. A RX 580 would arguably be better for gaming, but the A380 will be better at everything else.
I was thinking of buying this Aliexpress RX 580 8GB for $65 for this purpose.
You do realize that these ARC cards are now being sold at a huge loss due to picking up nearly zero traction in the market. If you think Intel's focus is to provide cheap GPU solutions going forward, you would be mistaken.
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The only question left unanswered about Intels plans is how long will their board let them sell them at a loss. Because Intel has to play the underdog for a good while, if they get to a 4’th Generation I will be pleasantly surprised. But I really hope that the 2nd Gen parts are competitive and stable.
This may be Intels hill to die on.
Intel's loss (leader) is our gain, for however long it lasts.
Intel has been resting on their laurels for far too long. It's good that they've finally started pulling their heads out of their nether regions, but it took things like this to wake them up. Apple dropping Intel was definitely another big wake up call. AMD ramping up their chips and being the primary proponent of console APUs. NVIDIA absolutely dominating in the AI and GPU space. Intel needs to get it together. Competition is good for everyone. Intel didn't have any for quite a while there. Now everyone is competing on so many levels for so many reasons. I don't want anyone to lose this race because it's bad for all of us. I want everyone to stay in the race so we can all enjoy bleeding edge technology in both the consumer and enterprise spaces.
id look at the fs/t forum rather than this, regardless of a "2yr warranty" out of chy-na....
That doesn't sound shady at all.
Do remember that Intel desktop GPU and Intel data center GPU are not in the same BU any more. Take that for what you will.
I think at this point all RX 580's were once a use mining card.
They aren’t the same, but the fundamentals are similar. The consumer cards are just significantly scaled down, and much simpler. Honestly it’s smart, and I’m overall impressed with their current offering, from what I understand it’s not doing badly in its intended roll, it falls in nicely behind the Nvidia offering and far ahead of the AMD ones. But its applicable scope is too small, but the packaging tech there is the real standout one for me cramming 63 tiles onto one interposer is not a minor engineering feat.
Once they put AV1 encode on their CPU's graphics core----you won't need a dedicated GPU for anything HTPC related. And I thiiiiink that is scheduled for 15th gen desktop.
They were the most popular card for doing that for a long time.
https://www.tomshardware.com/deskto...ing-up-to-a-core-ultra-7-155h-and-96gb-of-ram
That is strange. (Maybe to get the drivers ready ??)Discrete is only a small share of the market right.
The majority is integrated.
As per what I read battlemage is integrated into lunarvlake chips coming this year.
I was hopeful that discrete battlemage would come before that, but Intel themselves are publicly targetting CES 2025
Intel gets OEM’s sample chips very early, so they can do their own validations, designs, and other tasks they feel necessary.
Once Intel realized that it cannot compete on desktop GPU, it spun R&D costs off to DC. I do not think there is any chance of Intel ever competing in the desktop video card market from an actual BU cost.
From what I gather, many are newly produced cards, but using chips recycled from dedicated mining cards that had no video connectors.
I think that duty to stockholders will force AMD and Nvidia to shift how they build consumer GPUs, I honestly expect performance to only grow some 10% year over year and the die size to just shrink dramatically instead so they can maintain margins large enough that the investors don't complain.
AMD can sell cheaper if they come late to the same node. I.e. if they are behind nvidia by 1 year on same node then they don't have to pay TSMC premium for first use like apple/nvidia
Until AV2 or whatever codec is released and you need to buy an Intel bARK dedicated GPU for it. The cycle repeats.
Depend if we count the market by unit or by dollars
Best Buy is selling a new one, but it's more expensive than the A380 at this point.
In the hobby market, people are not generally buying CPUs for the GPU included on it, so I think it's disingenuous to say that integrated GPUs are the majority of the market.Discrete is only a small share of the market right.
The majority is integrated.
As per what I read battlemage is integrated into lunar lake chips coming this year.
I was hopeful that discrete battlemage would come before that, but Intel themselves are publicly targetting CES 2025